I also like exploring video games. I love hiking and the outdoors, too. To me, the difference in appreciation and experience is that one is art and one is reality. Art has been arranged by another person, typically for aesthetic effect, and so anywhere you look you’ll see something designed to elicit a reaction from the viewer. No such thought has been put into reality so despite the stunning amount of detail, it takes work and luck to find the beauty in it. One of the reasons we might say a particular moment in real life was “like a painting” or “like a movie”.